“The HomePod firmware accidentally made public by Apple, which replicates code apparently intended for the iPhone 8, is proving a goldmine of information,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac.

“Steve Troughton-Smith has been digging into the code for a virtual Home button,” Lovejoy reports. “In a tweet, he said that the code reveals that the Home button can be resized on-screen, and that it can be hidden.”

Lovejoy reports, “In a subsequent tweet this morning, Troughton-Smith provided the notch height and widths of the curved corners…”

We know some facts re iPhone 8 home button area:

• it resizes• indicator can be hidden• no API to change color• tab bars extend under it

4 Comments

Why is all this iPhone code in a smart speaker in the first place? It doesn’t make sense to me as most hardware features of iPhone are absent from Homepod and I would have assumed that it uses a massively stripped down operating system.